Locum Staff Nurse - Homecare

General Responsibilities:

• Provides age-specific patient-centered care utilizing the nursing process.
• Performs patient assessment using appropriate, problem-focused, and age-specific assessment techniques.
• Performs continual critical care assessment of patient, and family's physical and psychological needs.
• Involves the patient, significant others, and health care providers in the plan of care when appropriate.
• Collaborates with a multi-disciplinary team to provide patient care.
• Coordinates and plans critical care/clinical pathway, and prioritizes care, based on individual needs. Revise the care plan as necessary.
• Initiates appropriate transfer plan.
• Recognizes subtle cues to anticipate potential problems.
• Documents all relevant data in the medical record according to hospital/departmental standards.
• Ensures availability and maintenance of supplies and equipment needed for the unit and patient care.
• Performs clerical duties when needed.
• Assumes responsibility for meeting Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA) required mandatory education, e.g., fire, safety, infection control and others.
• Participates in staff meetings and unit committees/projects.

Unit Specific Responsibilities:

• Develops individualized care plans based on the nursing diagnosis, with updated revisions according to evaluation and re-assessment findings. Activities of daily living e.g. hygiene needs are considered in daily care planning.
• Sets priorities and plans implementation of patient care; implementation of care is completed in a timely, organized manner and follows American Hospital Dubai's nursing standards and policy and procedure. Activities of daily living e.g. hygiene needs are supported.
• Demonstrates attention to discharge planning; discharge planning that is addressed on admission, ongoing and as care plans are modified. Discharge and transfer procedures are completed in a timely and complete manner.
• Provides accurate, complete, and prompt reports on patient care conditions and response to treatment utilizing the standardized Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation (SBAR). Collaborates effectively as a multidisciplinary team member.
• Ensures nursing documentation is informative, complete, accurate, concise, and legible which follows the American Hospital Dubai and Joint Commission International Accreditation's standards and reflects the nursing process from assessment through evaluation.